Comments on: Is This the Best You Lot Can Do? http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/ Independent and alternative music in Scotland - with a shitload of gin. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Juan Zelada http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3141 Juan Zelada Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:14:58 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3141 No, it feels liberating. As I was reading it I could feel the catharsis. I was quitely laughing all the way too until you ended the post with a hard unlubricated fuck by a sea urchin, then quiet turned to not so quiet... You should try and work out a comments to alcohol ratio and we might have to start drinking before posting. Sorry, blog responsibly children. No, it feels liberating. As I was reading it I could feel the catharsis. I was quitely laughing all the way too until you ended the post with a hard unlubricated fuck by a sea urchin, then quiet turned to not so quiet… You should try and work out a comments to alcohol ratio and we might have to start drinking before posting.
Sorry, blog responsibly children.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3142 Matthew Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:58:16 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3142 Slightly embarrassing as well, Juan, no? Cheers Dan - I am really looking forward to it. I have a slot on student radio now, so I can plug you lot to my heart's content. That sounded a lot more vulgar than I intended it to. Slightly embarrassing as well, Juan, no?

Cheers Dan – I am really looking forward to it. I have a slot on student radio now, so I can plug you lot to my heart’s content.

That sounded a lot more vulgar than I intended it to.

]]> By: Juan Zelada http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3143 Juan Zelada Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:39:15 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3143 Most amusing. Most amusing.

]]> By: Dan Honeytrap http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3144 Dan Honeytrap Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:06:53 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3144 Hi Matthew Thanks so much for the support and kind words- made me very happy! Hope you like the album! LD x Hi Matthew

Thanks so much for the support and kind words- made me very happy! Hope you like the album!

LD x

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3146 Matthew Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:16:46 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3146 Is it? Oh brilliant news - I've been looking forward to this one for ages. Is it? Oh brilliant news – I’ve been looking forward to this one for ages.

]]> By: Stephen Tough Love http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3145 Stephen Tough Love Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:16:51 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3145 Well, this made my day. The Honeytrap album will be making it's way towards you (in digital form) within the week hopefully... Thank you x Well, this made my day. The Honeytrap album will be making it’s way towards you (in digital form) within the week hopefully…

Thank you x

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3118 Drunk Country Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:23:48 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3118 Actually, no you're right Toad - in TWO weeks (5th March <i>blah blah blah</i> www.ErrorFM.com); sorry, confused <i>The Humanity</i> with <i>The Hillfields</i>. Too many fucking definite articles, see? Back to your point, tho. It is interesting, this slight juxtoposition of ours. Hope disagreed with me about playing 'name'/commercial music - thinking it a bit below us. My argument was if the tune is bloody good & it wasn't commercial/BBC radio playlist ubiquitous, then we had every right to play it. Hope also had an anti-mainstream tic whereby the moment someone had an advert on TV for their new album, had a track in some US teen/20-something drama or advert, or even looked like they were going to have a fight with or fuck one of The Kooks (or similar) then they were effectively banned. I managed to wear her down on a few, smuggle a few by her, & just blatantly play stuff of that ilk successfully, but it irked her some. <i>Sia</i>, for example (& to some degree <i>Basia Bulat</i>, even <i>Adele</i>) have been a TWR staple for some time & now she (they) are either on their way to mainstream recognition or have started the process whereby they will be on car adverts & so forth in the very near future. I personally don't give a shit as I like them, just as long as the music is good & they're not on any of those <b>Ant & Dec</b>, <b>Friday Night Project</b>, & <b>Al Murray</b> type shows, masturbating their credibility away for the exposition buck. It's then I'd reassess whether they would be taking up space in a playlist that would be better granted to a relatively unheard of start up. So, I know where you're coming from. It's never about point scoring - I just get riled when the larger outlets out there start tagging 'acts' as their discovery. It's always satifying to play the likes of <i>The Hillfields</i> & co, because it feels far more organic (apologies for sounding media wanker there), but as you say the inner pop slut does grab the controls every now & then & it's nice to be reminded of the breadth of the whole skylark. Slight detour - the SbT 2-4 segments have been compiled & transmorgified into nice single files & all are very nice indeed. Cheers again. I think you might come to hate the theme tune. Not immediately, but as the weeks go by... Anyway, early night for me. ta ta. Actually, no you’re right Toad – in TWO weeks (5th March blah blah blah http://www.ErrorFM.com); sorry, confused The Humanity with The Hillfields. Too many fucking definite articles, see?

Back to your point, tho. It is interesting, this slight juxtoposition of ours. Hope disagreed with me about playing ‘name’/commercial music – thinking it a bit below us. My argument was if the tune is bloody good & it wasn’t commercial/BBC radio playlist ubiquitous, then we had every right to play it.

Hope also had an anti-mainstream tic whereby the moment someone had an advert on TV for their new album, had a track in some US teen/20-something drama or advert, or even looked like they were going to have a fight with or fuck one of The Kooks (or similar) then they were effectively banned. I managed to wear her down on a few, smuggle a few by her, & just blatantly play stuff of that ilk successfully, but it irked her some.

Sia, for example (& to some degree Basia Bulat, even Adele) have been a TWR staple for some time & now she (they) are either on their way to mainstream recognition or have started the process whereby they will be on car adverts & so forth in the very near future. I personally don’t give a shit as I like them, just as long as the music is good & they’re not on any of those Ant & Dec, Friday Night Project, & Al Murray type shows, masturbating their credibility away for the exposition buck. It’s then I’d reassess whether they would be taking up space in a playlist that would be better granted to a relatively unheard of start up.

So, I know where you’re coming from. It’s never about point scoring – I just get riled when the larger outlets out there start tagging ‘acts’ as their discovery. It’s always satifying to play the likes of The Hillfields & co, because it feels far more organic (apologies for sounding media wanker there), but as you say the inner pop slut does grab the controls every now & then & it’s nice to be reminded of the breadth of the whole skylark.

Slight detour – the SbT 2-4 segments have been compiled & transmorgified into nice single files & all are very nice indeed. Cheers again. I think you might come to hate the theme tune. Not immediately, but as the weeks go by…

Anyway, early night for me. ta ta.

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3119 Drunk Country Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:00:16 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3119 Wednesday 27th February, 10pm-Midnight (GMT), to be exact. Wednesday 27th February, 10pm-Midnight (GMT), to be exact.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3136 Matthew Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:38:47 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3136 Mate, you want to listen to Error FM in a couple of weeks because I believe DC is letting me play your stuff on one of his shows. Mate, you want to listen to Error FM in a couple of weeks because I believe DC is letting me play your stuff on one of his shows.

]]> By: josh (the humanity) http://songbytoad.com/2008/02/is-this-the-best-you-lot-can-do/#comment-3135 josh (the humanity) Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:19:41 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1320#comment-3135 hello, just wanted to say that despite the lack of comments we're utterly chuffed to have been considered worth writing about, it means a lot to us that people are liking the track and are helping get our names out there, so yeah, keep up the good work, it's a great little site you have here and long may it continue. j. hello, just wanted to say that despite the lack of comments we’re utterly chuffed to have been considered worth writing about, it means a lot to us that people are liking the track and are helping get our names out there, so yeah, keep up the good work, it’s a great little site you have here and long may it continue.

j.

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